Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahito Sekita

Masao Ogawa

Yutaka Murata

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Hiroshi Kato

Takeshi Yamazaki

Mitsuo Kusa

Akio Matsuzaki

Kiyotaka Fujihara

Kensuke Suzuki

To provide a parking brake device allowing a vehicle to be kept in a wheel lock state by a parking brake when the vehicle is parked and a driver is separated from the vehicle and when an engine of a vehicle in a parking state is started. In a parking brake device in which a pull-up force of a parking lever supported by a base plate fixed on a vehicular body side is transmitted to a brake device of a vehicle via a wire to lock the brake device, an ignition block is provided on the parking lever. This parking brake device includes a lock pin projecting when a key cylinder is located in a LOCK position, and further the lock pin projects through a cutout only when the parking lever is in a brake lock state. With this configuration, the wheel is already in the lock state by the parking brake if an ignition key is inserted or removed in or from the key cylinder in the LOCK position.

Parking brake device for vehicle

A small four-wheeled vehicle frame cover covering a body frame for supporting a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels includes a floor panel, side decks, a front deck, and a rear deck. The side decks extend laterally from opposite sides of a cabin, the front deck is present in front of the cabin, and the rear deck is positioned behind the cabin. The decks surround the cabin, forming a gallery. An interior frame constituting the cabin includes a driver supporting unit which is composed of a seat cushion, a seat back, shoulder pads, and side supports. The interior frame and driver supporting unit are positioned way back from entrances in order to enlarge the entrances.

Small four-wheeled vehicle

A shock absorbing stroke in the front portion of a vehicle body is to be made large. Between right and left front wheels are disposed longitudinally extending side beams and center beam, and these three beams are integrally connected by connecting members in front of a cross member. A shock dispersing plate is attached to the said integral connection and the back thereof is brought into abutment with a floor portion formed of a resin.

Body frame assembly in a small-sized vehicle

A vehicle frame is to be made compact. A rectangular frame portion includes a vehicle body frame having front wheels supported thereon through leading arms and rear wheels supported thereon through trailing arms. Both front and rear wheels are suspended by front and rear shock absorbers. The heights of pivot points are set almost equal to the heights of the rectangular frame portion. A battery is accommodated in the space defined by the rectangular frame portion and the rear portion of the vehicle body is extended to overhang a swing power unit assembly.

Small-sized vehicle

To increase the shock absorbing stroke of a front portion of a body frame. Side beams and a central beam, which extend longitudinally of a motor vehicle, are disposed forwardly of a cross member and between left and right front wheels. Front portions of left and right leading arms are curved outwardly of the side beams. When a shock is applied, the front portions of the leading arms are bent laterally outwardly, displacing the front wheels outwardly of the cross member.

Front wheel suspension for small size motor vehicle

An exhaust gas purifying device includes a cylindrical carrier carrying a catalyst, the carrier having a number of holes in the cylindrical wall thereof, an exhaust pipe into which the cylindrical carrier is inserted, an elastic member set radially compressed between a part of the outer cylindrical surface of at least one end portion of the carrier and a recess formed in the inner cylindrical surface of the exhaust pipe which is confronted with the part of the outer cylindrical surface, pressing pieces protruded from the outer cylindrical surface of the carrier so as to engage with the inner end face of the elastic member as viewed in the direction of axis thereof, the pressing pieces cooperating with the end of the recess to compress the elastic member axially, and a valve chamber formed in the exhaust pipe, the valve chamber having a valve body which includes a valve shaft penetrating the valve chamber in a direction of diameter, and a valve body fixedly mounted on the valve shaft.

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Saitama, Japan

Takahito Sekita